I just found how to completely disable ClearType in 7 : Control Panel / System and Security / System / Advanced system settings / Settings under Performance / Unchecked Smooth edges of screen fonts.
My fonts are easier to read now. Hope this will help someone.
I found i wasn't keen on the smooth scrolling and looked to disable it, here's how for those of you who don't like it.from the menu bar select tools /options /advanced /general tab and then uncheck use smooth scrolling then OK.from the firefox dropdown its, options/ options advanced /general tab /uncheck use smooth scrolling/ OK.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've a Sony Bravia 40" LCD connected via HDMI to my nvidia card HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium.
Every time I change the input selection on Sony TV from AV5 where is HTPC to TV tuner windows detects the monitor as unpluged dissabling it and when I come back to AV5 the windows detects the monitor again (sounds the typical PnP device detection sound) showing windows desktop but blinking with black screens two or three times, I suposse looking for best resolution.
Is there any way to disable this monitor detection?
I've a Sony Bravia 40" LCD connected via HDMI to my nvidia card HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium.
Every time I change the input selection on Sony TV from AV5 where is HTPC to TV tuner windows detects the monitor as unpluged dissabling it and when I come back to AV5 the windows detects the monitor again (sounds the typical PnP device detection sound) showing windows desktop but blinking with black screens two or three times, I suposse looking for best resolution.
Is there any way to disable this monitor detection?
10 tips for a better looking desktop:
Here is 10 tips for a better looking desktop.
Rocketdock: Rocket dock is a full customizable dock, which can be customized with both skins and icons. Easy to set up and cool.
Rainmeter: Rainmeter is a fully-customizable app, which can display gadgets, meters etc.
Samurize: Don't really know much about this app but it sure looks cool, and its kinda like rainmeter
Windows live gadgets: Then there is of course the windows live gadget gallery. Do notice that some gadgets may not work with windows 7.
Wallpapers: A good way to a good looking desktop is to get a wallpaper in a high res or a res matching you monitor. Google is your friend, but if you are using high res remember to put the res size in the search too, this might get better results. You can also search various wallpaper site around the web.
Custom icons: Another way is to get some good looking icons, instead of the boring default ones.
Changing your start button: This can be done pretty easy, see this thread:
http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/2002-custom-themes-icons-start-buttons-104.html
and this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/23024-start-menu-button-change.html
Fences: a great app, that might save your time. Simple and good looking.
Winbubbles: This can be used to changing icons, adding OEM info etc.
Change your startup screen: This is a great little tweak, which looks a lot better than the default startup screen (login screen). You can choose any wallpaper of your choice.
Themes: Themes is a way to customize the windows layout and look. How to change themes see this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/28377-theme-how-apply-custom-themes.html
Rocketdock: http://rocketdock.com/
Fences: http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Winbubbles: http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/11/winbubbles-features-gap.html
Logon change: http://www.blogsdna.com/2756/download-logon-changer-for-windows-7.htm
Icons: http://www.iconspedia.com/
Rainmeter: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Rainmeter.shtml
Rainmeter skins: http://customize.org/rainmeter
Samurize: http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/
Windows Gadgets: http://gallery.live.com/
HD Wallpaper pack by Captain Zero:
http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/23609-captain-zeros-hd-wallpack.html
A list of themes: Here's is a few more:
http://oliver182.deviantart.com/art/Alternative-for-Windows-7-RC-127004959
http://k-johnson.deviantart.com/art/Clearscreen-Sharp-for-Windows7-141360821
http://jg-visuals.deviantart.com/art/Gaia09-VS-for-Seven-2-137301385
http://djabytown.deviantart.com/art/Green-Spirit-VS-138198863
http://mrgrim01.deviantart.com/art/Neon-Windows-7-Theme-140261436
http://rheaoctober.deviantart.com/art/Soliq7-1-VS-for-WIN7-RTM-133436622
http://djabytown.deviantart.com/art/ThaImpact-VS-7-Version-123553200
http://sergiogarcia9.deviantart.com/art/Red-Fusion-for-Windows-7-139946034
http://sergiogarcia9.deviantart.com/art/SG9-Designs-Special-Edition-141328691
i have a lenovo laptop in one place, so I use external monitor. is there any way ,when my child tries to unplug the external monitor, the laptop screen not to work? i want to disable permanently the laptop screen.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMY case has a 7" screen that is NOT hdcp compatible. So to watch bluray's (TMT5) I have to disable it. I usually do this through the screen resolution property page. Is there a quick way to toggle this? Will turning off the 2nd monitor, turn off Imon?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWindows 7 is fast, stable and far more reliable as expected.
And while it doesn't include major new features in its first beta, take the time to explore and you'll find lots of useful changes that will make a real difference in how you use your PC.
Like any version of Windows there are various tips, tweaks and hacks you can perform to get your PC working the way you want it.
Here's the first guide on how to get the most from your Windows 7 installation.
I am a long time user of Windows XP. And I have very basic and specific ways of browsing and launching needed apps and getting to my files.
I recently volunteered my little brothers PC to be the Windows 7 guinea pig. I installed windows 7 with its awesome and simple new gui installer, ran all the updates, video drivers, the works.
Then when I went to add a toolbar to the right hand side of the screen by dragging an empty folder to the edge, the folder just bounced back.. Top, left.. no good. I chatted with several people I know using 7 and they tried with no avail as well. It works on Vista, XP and probably even back to 98-95.
Has this REALLY useful and SUPER IMPORTANT (at least to me) option been removed from the "newest and best" windows build?
Example of "MY" Auto hiding Windows XP sidebar. Easy access to all my root drives, a cascading explorer, expanding games, and single click fully labeled program shortcuts.
Showing Cascading One click file browsing. Just have to mouse over to expand sub folders to easily find buried files.
I have been trying to disable windows media Player.
Someone suggested using PROCESS MONITOR. Do you know what steps I would take?
So recently I've seen that some people still use quicklaunch, which perplexes me a bit. I can't think of anything you can do with quicklaunch that you cannot do with the regular pinned icons via a keypress or two. Now I'm not criticizing anyone for continuing to use quicklaunch as it does make some things easier, but it makes me wonder if you who do are aware of how to do some stuff via the pinned icons. Not to mention that the taskbar looks prettier without quicklaunch.
Mostly, actions performed by quicklaunch can be activated via the shift button.
Opening a new instance of a program for example, can be done by shift clicking a pinned taskbar item(or middle clicking).
The most frequent reason I find for using quicklaunch is for opening files with a certain program, like opening pictures with photoshop. This is easily done with pinned items by simply holding shift as you drag the files to the programs. You will get a little tooltip saying "Open file with blah blah", and voila.
Also, if you right click on the programs in the jumplist, normally you don't get a whole lotta options. However, if you shift-right click, you will get all the options you would normally get by accessing the program in its true folder.
Shift-rightclicking on items pinned on the taskbar also allows you minimize windows more readily and stuff. I know that this was out before, but I thought it would be useful for some to reiterate.
Is there any was to make scrolling smooth?Like when you have Google chrome with the "Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller" extension installed but for everything in windows, not just the browser.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell 1525 with the intel 965 chipset graphics. I had XP and Vista 32bit installed previously and the graphics drivers would have an extra option to change the horizontal and vertical position of the screen. But now with Seven x64 and the drivers downloaded from Update, I can't seem to fix the problem.
Whenever I have a program maximized on my hdtv a few pixels width wise will be off screen. Just enough to have the menu bars and scroll bars off screen. Are there any third party programs to fix this? I tried installing x64 Vista drivers and they would invert and wash out the colors on my screen, totally unusable.
Put this in here because instead of the gaming forum since it seems to be a system-wide issue since it happens with multiple applications as opposed to just one game.Okay, so this has been a problem I've had with multiple computers for a while so I was wondering if it's a bug with my setups or if it's just how the Xbox 360 controller generally behaves in Windows.For example, in Skyrim, with the 360 controller attached, controls feel slightly delayed and the action isn't smooth at all, at least not compared to playing Skyrim on an actual 360 with the 360 controller. It's mostly evident with the right control stick (don't worry, the actual controller is fine - works perfectly on Xbox 360).To better explain - if I try moving the right analogue stick in a circular motion to look around - the result is that it really jerkily, like in a square, moves right, then down, then left, then up as opposed to actually doing a circular motion, and generally switching from looking from say up to, say, looking right, is a mess.
View 3 Replies View RelatedNot sure if this is due to my hardware or some setting in Windows 7. I have Win 7 Pro x64 on a Sony Vaio ZPCZ11. Using the MS Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 7000. In the file view of Windows File Explorer, if I click in the space and wheel scroll, everything works fine and the scrolling is smooth. But when I click in the Navigation Pane (Folder List) and try the same thing, it wants to scroll an entire page at a time. I cannot get the smooth mouse scrolling to work in this Pane!
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View 7 Replies View RelatedMy video card died a few days ago so i had to start using my integrated Intel HD Graphics.i have once screen at 1920X1080 and the other is 1680x1050 and when ever i maximize a window (firefox for example) it overlaps on my 1st screen. imgur: the simple image shareris a image of both screen and you can see the window layered onto the start of my screen under the start menu orb.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI like to have a lot of fonts installed on my computer but I couldn't with my old computer because it slowed down the load up time for my computer.My new computer has the following:
processor brand AMD
processor model A8 Quad-Core
memory 8 GB
hard drive capacity 1000 GB
operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
processor speed 2.5 GHz
front side bus speed 4.0 GT/s
memory speed PC3-10600
memory type DDR3 SD RAM
maximum memory capacity 8 GB
video graphics AMD Radeon HD 6550D integrated graphics with up to 4089MB shared memory
audio hardware integrated audio, 6 speaker configurable
model name Pavilion p7-1225
brand name HP
manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Am I going to be able to install a lot of fonts with this setup without slowing down my computer?If I can, is there a limit of how many I could install without running into a slower computer boot up?
every time i try to download them into my font folder, they dont show up in psp7.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm moving from an XP machine to a Windows 7 machine. I want to take a bunch of fonts with me, but Explorer in Windows 7 won't let me actually look at what files are in the font directory; all I can see is their characteristics, provided by Control Panel. Will it work to just copy font files into that directory from the XP machine? Or is there some additional voodoo to get them installed?
View 7 Replies View RelatedChanged the appearance of Win7 to make it look like XP. Changed desktop color, active window color etc. Everything worked fine. Except I still have 3d fonts under the icons on the desktop and they look terrible on a solid background. The setting is the font for "icons" - changing the style or size of the font shows up on the desktop. But I can't get rid of the 3d. Difference between a work of art and really ugly.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have two fonts file ( same font, new and older version). I want to edit one ftf font file and import older font selected few characters to the new one. How do I do it? What is the good application to that?
Actually I want to edit "DroidSanFallback" font new and older files. Older file support my native language letters/fonts, but new version not has my native language letters/fonts. So I want to copy my native language characters to new one.
I am from Sri Lanka, and hence I use Sinhala and Tamil fonts from time to time. I have discovered that certain fonts appear fully on the Fonts Panel in the CP. However, other do not (that is, those others appear faded on the CP Fonts panel). WHen I change my font type to a Sinhala font that appeared fully on the panel, it types well on MS Word. But when I try to type in a Sinhala font that appear faded in the CP Fonts Panel, it types in English. how this can be, and what steps I can use to remedy it? to prevent it?
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View 0 Replies View RelatedEverything is fine now. If I did something, not sure what worked exactly, but I won't argue Got a strange issue. I've been doing some fiddling recently with customizing Windows 7 (specifically, installing Rainmeter and trying to install custom themes). When I tried to install a theme, however, I ended up with font troubles. Apparently it wrote over some of the main fonts and, oddly enough, made the font show up transparent in some places. (a specific example is in a folder I created on the desktop) Is there a way to restore the fonts completely to default? I've tried restoring to defaults in font settings, but no-go. What do you guys think? I'm thinking I should give up custom themes for a bit until I can make a restore point (I like to dive into things like this. Keeps it challenging, you know ) EDIT: Forgot to mention that this is all on the 64 bit version!
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a three monitor set up. Whenever I open up a browser, either internet explorer or google chrome on monitors 2 and 3, after a few seconds it automatically drags my browser into my main monitor(monitor 1, where my start button and status bar is located)
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View 5 Replies View RelatedWhich Office 2010 Home and Student Edition fonts are absolutely necessary? Or to put it another way, which fonts (that are typically installed in a normal Office installation) is it safe to delete? There are waaay too many of these dubiously styled fonts cluttering my Windows 7 Pro system; I want to pare things down and make room for higher quality fonts.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI don't know what happened, but when I turned on my PC this morning I found out that the following fonts are missing from the Windows/Fonts directory: Arial, Tahoma, Times New Roman. Maybe others are missing also, but I can't tell. Everything is Italic and/or Bold.So my questions are:
01. Why is this happening?
02. What happened with the missing fonts?
03. How could this be fixed?
04. What is the default font and size for Windows 7?
05. Where can I change it?